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Welcome to the Institute for Advanced Studies

About the IAS

IAS Building "The IAS is a major initiative signalling Lancaster's commitment to scholarship that pushes well beyond narrow departmental and disciplinary boundaries."

Professor Bob Jessop, Founding Director

Faculty Graduate School

Lancaster University prides itself on its interdisciplinarity. The Faculty Graduate School aims to promote this interdisciplinarity through the provision of a range of support, training and other activities specifically designed for our postgraduate community. These activities are designed to both support and go beyond that which is offered within those Departments that makeup the Faculty. Full details of all these activities are on the Faculty Graduate School website.

Grants and Funding

Our Incubation Programme provides seed-corn funding for interdisciplinary and post-disciplinary projects designed to encourage dialogue between local, regional and international academic and non-academic colleagues.

See also:

Incubation Programme Round 7

Previously Funded Projects

Research Activities

New ESRC funded seminar series: Cultural and Political Economy

Search our Research Activities Database and Archive.

Experimentality Launch

Experimentality is the 2009-10 Annual Flasks Research Programme of the Institute for Advanced Studies. It is a year-long collaborative exploration of ideas and practices of experimentation in science and technology, the arts, commerce, politics, popular culture, everyday life, and the natural world. Through a series of interdisciplinary workshops, arts events and a conference bringing together leading practitioners, academics and members of the wider public, it uses the notion of the experiment to explore vital questions about the relationship between knowledge and power, freedom and control in the modern world. Programme Bron Szerszynski Director, Bronislaw Szerszynski, says: ‘the idea of the experiment carries many of modernity’s greatest hopes - and greatest fears. We need a concerted attempt to understand the nature of experimentation, in order to explore how we might use it to shape the future in more benign and inclusive ways’.

The programme launched with its first workshop, The Experimental Condition, on 15 and 16 October. For further details, visit the programme’s website http://www.lancs.ac.uk/experimentality

Annual Research
Programmes

Our Annual Research Programmes bring together international and national scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds to work on a common research problem that is significant both intellectually and in terms of its implications for the real world.